<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 9:19 PM, Dave Sill <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sparge@gmail.com" target="_blank">sparge@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:</div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div></div></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">> </div>The problem is knowing when they're as intelligent as we are. AlphaGO isn't even close. If it wants to argue otherwise I'd happy to engage it.</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4">If it isn't even close to being intelligent how can it start from zero knowledge and teach itself to play </font></div><font size="4"> Chess<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">.</div> GO and <span class="gmail-s1">Shogi</span> <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">in less than a day and easily beat any human who ever lived? If a human had done the exact same thing you wouldn't call it intelligent you'd call it genius. But its brain isn't squishy like our brain is so you say its not even close. As for me, I say you're whistling past the graveyard. </div></font></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4"><br></font></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4"> John K Clark </font></div></div>
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